Slighting This Greatest Generation

DDilegge · 10-09-2005

By Bing West in 9 Oct's WP at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...100701703.html

"Recently the refractory city of Fallujah reemerged as a front-page story. Fallujah first leaped to national attention last November when it became the scene of the fiercest urban combat in the past 35 years. During that battle, 100 Marine squads engaged in more than 200 firefights inside small, dark cement rooms against suicidal jihadists. A single such ferocious gunfight between police and gangs anywhere in America would receive overwhelming and immediate press attention. The Marines did that 200 times in one week in Fallujah..."

10-09-2005	#1
DDilegge Council Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Virginia Posts: 133	Slighting This Greatest Generation By Bing West in 9 Oct's WP at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...100701703.html "Recently the refractory city of Fallujah reemerged as a front-page story. Fallujah first leaped to national attention last November when it became the scene of the fiercest urban combat in the past 35 years. During that battle, 100 Marine squads engaged in more than 200 firefights inside small, dark cement rooms against suicidal jihadists. A single such ferocious gunfight between police and gangs anywhere in America would receive overwhelming and immediate press attention. The Marines did that 200 times in one week in Fallujah..."

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